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You aren't wrong. People DO bring SHITLOADS of lights and lazers to this festival. And thats not to even mention the multi-thousand dollar sound systems. People go ALL OUT, literally truckloads of equipment.

This year they had a lazer that moved like a clock at night. You could look up from anywhere in the playa and see what time it was.

For the first half of the week, I couldn't figure out what the hell that thing was. Then someone told me, and I said, "Ahhhhh! I get it!" I was also told that it was the largest clock ever made on record. Is this true, and could it be in the Guinness Book of World Records?

It was indeed the largest clock ever made at approximately one mile in diameter (hence the name: the One Mile Clock), and was submitted to the Guinness record books. I don't know when they're updated, but it should be in the next one.

Everyone does bring a shitload of lights to that festival. It's a bit of a mission, shipping truckloads of lighting equipment into the desert. The industrial infrastructure out there is really something - and most of it is done by amateurs. It's not like people hire crews of professional riggers, for the most part - they just rent or buy all the gear and do it themselves.

Regardless, this bears a hilarious similarity to the Nazca lines/ancient astronauts scenario. 200 years from now, we'll have nutjobs saying "Look, we have this extraordinary grouping of people who manipulate their vehicles and tents in such a way that it makes a pattern only visible from space. More conclusively, it can only be seen using radar satellite! Now, if this wasn't made for the purpose of contacting an alien civilization, what was it made for?"

Festival culture and travel are pretty big amongst Australians. Where altogether too many people get a stick up their backside and go "Boo, look at all those hippies and their fun aren't they despicable!" the standard Australian response is just "Party in the desert! Fuck yeah!"

I was worried about the same thing before I went. Oh no, it's gone mainstream! It's going to suck by the time I get there! It'll be all full of advertising! Yeah, that was 2001. Still going, still loving it, still hasn't lost its integrity.

*Good god! Bitches be crazy up in here! To be fair, most everyone is right, my above response is probably a bit rude. And GavinMcG is correct, the burning man site does say on the front page basically what Burning Man is (which is all I was looking for, a quick summary of what it was). To be fair however, that quick description SHOULD be on the Burning Man's "What Is Burning Man" page, which is what I naturally clicked. This festival looks awesome, and I would love to go! I hope I'm not disqualified now for appearing to hate on it?

Since you went to the Burning Man site, why didn't you just look at the first thing on the front page, where it says

What Is Burning Man?

Once a year, tens of thousands of participants gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert to create Black Rock City, dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance.

The part of the site you quoted and Wikipedia are interpreting "is" differently. The site is trying to explain the essence or character of the event. Wikipedia is trying to explain that it's an event, where certain things happen.

No, you are right. And I agree. My response was quick, and while I was merely judging the way the information was presented (NOT the idea and spirit of the gathering) I do think I came off as rude and hateful. Sorry :-(

Wow. I spend all day on Reddit reading about how everyone loves creativity and originality and all of you sound like you have sticks up your asses because the description on their webpage wasn't up to your standards.

It's really not like that. "Burners" are the opposite of hipsters - they're very outgoing, middle aged weekend warrior types. Literally the most welcoming people I've ever met. If they feel cool at all (it's hard to feel cool when you're naked), it's because they build a city in the desert every year, fill it with rave cars, art installations, pyrotechnics, and drugs, then wipe it out a week later, leaving no trace.

Their site actually explains exactly what they're about at the very top of the page, if the parent commenter had looked.

That is one thing I never thought about. Every other festival I go to is based in the woods or land that is easily destroyed over the festival, but Burning Man was as if it was never there after it rains and the tracks are gone.

The Playa is open to visitors before and after Burning Man too. Watching meteor showers in absolute darkness and really experiencing true silence is an amazing thing - you should definitely go and experience Black Rock without the noise of BM.

The event is described by many participants as an experiment in community, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance.

So that does it for you? The week long part was pretty self-explanatory, but from that wiki quote alone I can pretty confidently say you still have absolutely no comprehension of what burning man is all about.

It's an art festival, basically. There's music being played on a couple different stages, there's paintings, there's sculptures... What makes it different is how grand some of these things turn out, and that a lot of them are interactive. The Burning Man himself is usually about 5 stories tall before they light that bitch on fire. There's also a large amount of art-cars, which I've only ever heard about in relation to BurningMan; I saw one on YouTube that was a 20 foot long Dragon that had five people riding through the desert on it as it shot flames out of it's mouth.
The self-reliance and community part comes in because there's no money allowed in BlackRock City. There's a lot of trading going on, or favors in exchange for stuff, but there's also a lot of cool people that will just share everything they brought. The economy is mostly built on food and drugs, I'd imagine.

Rokstar66 said it best, Google Images and Youtube will tell you way more than anything else.

The economy isn't really built on drugs. You just go into it with the mindset that you're willing to help anyone, talk to anyone and give away anything you came with. Everyone else has the same mindset and as a result everyone provides for everyone else. I don't think anyone really counts the value of any trade.

Aww common! It's the playa! The event is beyond worth enduring the weather, and doing things you don't like should be revelatory or at least inspire introspection. Or are you waiting to make it safely to death?

seriously, you're going to have some kind of shade structure, which is going to involve vertical poles anchored to the ground somehow. Just anchor them especially tight and string your hammock between the poles. Works a treat.

p.s. As someone who just went for the first time, it was honestly the greatest experience of my life. You HAVE to put it on your bucket list! It's utterly impossible to convey the magnitude of the experience...nothing in the world can prepare you for it.

hum... This was actually a argument we had on our local burner list about how much money you actually need to attend burningman. As an east coastie it can be pretty expensive. The travel, the shipping, the ticket, etc.

The fact of the matter is you can do the "burningman thing" for about a $1,000. Less if you are closer to the event, have connections and apply for and get "financial hardship" tickets.

Is it cheap? no. Do you have to be rich to attend? Also no. What would you pay for a vacation anywhere? so they are comparable.

It's a lot cheaper if you have your own camping gear and such already too. The ticket is roughly $1-300 depending on when you buy it, add in gas and food (1 week's worth) and that's about all you need. It's a boatload of fun and definitely worth the expense.

Depending on where you live and how much camping gear you already have, you can do it for perhaps as little as $750-$1000. I spent something like $5k on it one year, but I'll probably never do that again.

Ticket is around $2-300, add in $100-150 for food and water (less if you have stocked up already, or can eat carefully), gas (varies, though about $50 if you drive in from Reno), camping gear (varies), and party paraphernalia.

It's possible to do the whole thing on around 4-500 if you buy early and have supplies.

A high maintenance person at the Burning Man Festival who is unprepared for the harsh camping environment and becomes a burden to their camp-mates.
Burner #1: "Can you believe that Sparkle Pony over there brought 60 costumes but only 2 gallons of water and some ramen noodles?"

Acid at burning man is awesome. Wandering around everything that's going on while not being paranoid about being so high is amazing. You're around a drug culture and don't have the paranoia of tripping because no one gives a shit. And there's crazy shit going on everywhere. So good.

I can honestly say drugs are not as big a part of burningman as people make it out to be. That being said, there is just about every drug imaginable out there. The drug of choice would be personal preference and what's available.

I want to clarify one thing... This is a radar image that has the shiny bits representing things that weren't there before. Those aren't lights, those are just all the tents/structures/cars/etc, highlighted.

Honestly, weed isn't really smoked very much over there. The DEA is present and people usually don't risk smoking pot because it's obvious, with the smell and smoke and all. People take more discreet drugs such as acid, MDMA, mushrooms and cocaine. However, weed does make a presence out there in the form of candy and pastries...

Considering the use of "sacred geometry" I think there may be an occultic reason for it, which means you'll have a hard time finding out the true reason. But, officially the answer is:

The pentagram that marks our city's external boundary was dictated by (a) the need to minimize our footprint in the surrounding environment due to the concerns of other recreational land users, (b) the economic need to create one controllable entry point at which we could charge an entrance fee (sorely lacking until '97), (c) the need to protect our community from the depredations of rogue vehicles, and (d) containment for wind born debris (Burning Man being the largest "Leave No Trace" event in the USA).

The most efficient and obvious solution was a circle, but that was unworkable in that it lacked straight lines of sight for security. A triangle or square, while requiring the minimum number of vantages for sight lines, enclosed too much unused space in its angles and created an unnecessarily large perimeter. Six sides or more required too many security points, so the present shape was determined by default.

It looks like a pentagon to me too, since I do not see lines connecting the points (here is another view for clarity). But according to the official website, it is a pentagram. I find this very interesting, because the reasons they give for choosing this particular shape would suggest it is not symbolic at all. But instead of referring to it as a pentagon, they clearly state it is a pentagram. Considering that, it could very well be for occultic purposes. Just because there are no clearly visible lines connecting the points, that does not necessarily mean they do not exist. "Occult" itself most simply means "hidden". Those lines could be there, symbolically somehow, or by use of other defining points. I'm certainly not an expert on these matters, however. I just like to speculate and theorize. It could just as easily be a writer who doesn't know the difference between a pentagram and a pentagon...

I have run a camp of 50 people for the last 5 years. We have a 30' dome, sound system, generators, kitchen, sofas, full bar and structures to climb. Anyone is welcome at our camp.

All of our camp members donate money to the camp for supplies, but also bring everything they would need to keep themselves alive in the desert for a whole week.

For my own food supplies I bring 10 gallons of water (I give away a few gallons each year to those in need), 8 cans of soup, and 4 large packs of beef jerky. All other food comes out of our communal kitchen and I end up going home with 5+ cans of soup.

My favorite part about going to the burn is that I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want. There's always something crazy to see and do.